Rape & race in the nineteenth-century South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sommerville, Diane Miller (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Series:	UNC Press law publications. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Women and the law. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	Rape > Southern States > History > 19th century. Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Not so heinous as at first might be supposed: slave rape, gender, and class in old South communities
A manifest distinction between a woman and a female child: rape law, children, and the antebellum South
He shall suffer death: Black-on-white rape law in the early South
The very helplessness of the accused appeals to our sympathy: rape, race, and Southern appellate law
Against all odds?: free Blacks on trial for rape in the antebellum South
Rarely known to violate a white woman: slave rape in Civil War-era Virginia
Our judiciary system is a farce: remapping the legal landscape of rape in the post-emancipation South
Foul daughter of Reconstruction?: Black rape in the Reconstruction South
The old thread-bare lie: the rape myth and alternatives to lynching
Appendix. Rape, race, and rhetoric: the rape myth in historiographical perspective.